Thick fur. Thin face or wide face. Long howls or short yips. Is it a wolf or a coyote? Learn how these beautiful wild creatures are alike and how they differ.
The number of points on a starfish or on a snowflake, the number of moons in the night sky. Let’s count how many surprises nature has all around us.
7th grader Derrick’s “Dead Max Comix” are such a hit in the school paper he and Max start their own advice column. Derrick and Doug should have asked for advice before they started a band without inviting Kim and Keisha to join. Will the Battle of the Bands mean the end of Derrick and Kim? Not if Dead Max can help out.
Derrick Hollis is a 7th grader at Zachary Taylor Middle School and an aspiring cartoonist too shy to show his work to anybody. Derrick is devastated when his dog Max dies. But after being cremated, Max returns as a ghost giving Derrick advice. Will Dead Max be good for Derrick?
Consonants can team up to do many things. Some blend their sounds together. Some make new sounds. These consonant blends and digraphs can be used to build simple words we use everyday. Let’s learn what these consonant teams can do.
The alphabet has 26 letters. Five of them are vowels: a-e-i-o-u. They can make long and short sounds. The short vowels can be used to build many simple words. Learn what these short vowels can do.
Abandoned by her white father, thirteen-year-old Red Dove faces another lean winter with her Lakota family on the Great Plains. Willful and proud, she is presented with a stark choice: leave her people to live in the white world, or stay and watch them starve. Red Dove begins a journey to find her place in the world and discovers that her greatest power comes from within herself.
If there’s one thing everyone knows, it’s that Trevor Lee and school don’t mix. Like pickles and peanut butter. When his new teacher announces all the third graders must read in front of everyone at Parents Night, Trevor Lee and his best friend Pinky take action before his secret of not being able to read gets out. After several over-the-top attempts at getting out of Parents Night, Trevor Lee enlists the help of his Mamaw. “Some days are just bad. You gotta hold your head high and keep moving,” she always says. Can Trevor Lee remember her advice as he stands in front of a crowd on the biggest night of third grade?
Thirteen-year-old Hannah Higgins is convinced her summer is ruined when she is forced to travel to Africa and work in a remote village in Kenya with her mom and uncle. Never having been to a developing country, she finds the food challenging and the community filthy. She has to live without electricity or running water. Then she is told she must attend school. Just when she thinks nothing could make this trip any worse, she learns people there are dying of hunger and preventable disease. Hannah becomes frustrated and wants to help, but when poverty threatens the lives of people she loves, all she wants to do is go home.
Vowels can say their names: A-E-I-O-U. These vowel sounds can be spelled many different ways, including vowel teams. Discover how these long vowels and vowel teams can be used to build words.
The alphabet has 26 letters—21 of them are consonants. They can be combined with vowels to build words. Let’s discover what some of the less frequent consonants can do.
The alphabet has 26 letters—21 of them are consonants. They can be combined with vowels to build words. Let’s discover what some of the most common consonants can do.
Vowel teams can make both long and complex vowel sounds. The special complex vowel teams can be spelled many different ways. They can be used to build common words we use everyday. Let’s discover what these complex vowels can do.
Which animal is called Black Death? Did you know one of the most dangerous animals eats only grass and plants? Some animals kill by biting and fighting, others are deadly to touch!
Greñas is having it rough until two sly cats teach him new tricks. SEL topic: using please and thank you
When Dog is down on Cat's plans, will Cat give up or keep after her dream? SEL topic: perseverance
Ocho is the best at helping others. But who will help him when he needs it? SEL topic: helping others
Cleto Castor learns a painful lesson about keeping his teeth healthy. SEL topic: staying healthy
Flying, swimming, or hopping, running for cover or running down prey - some animals on Earth use super speed to survive.
Nana teaches Nino that the best birthday gift doesn't come in a box.
It's the day of the big show. How will the judges decide who is top dog?
When Oscar goes off on his own, his sister decides to teach him a lesson.
When four friends head off to the park, careful planning rules the day.
He snarls and snaps at everyone in the yard, but will Bulldog back down or bark back when confronted?
Carmela and Camilo have a big surprise planned for Mateo, but will he learn that manners matter?